McDonald is the largest fast food restaurant brand in the world. It provides a mass fast food service with great-tasting and high quality foods as well as speed and convenience to customers. (McDonald annual report 2013) It operates with a low variety and high volume products. Technology is used to improve operation process in order to produce standardized service to individual customer. Thus only limited customization of service‚ and limited contact between customers and staffs can be made. (Greasley
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What is Globalization? Has Globalization really become the cliché of the century? Globalization perceives the world as a way of interconnectivity through similar aspects of life that interest us as humans. Globalization begins from culture to economics and all the way to environmental situations creating a global shift‚ thus being the cliché of our time. Globalization moulds the world to create a connection through social relations all over the world. Globalization includes transactions between
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HISTORY OF MC DONALD Dick and Mac Mcdonald were two brothers who started the McDonald’s brand in California after moving their hotdog stand to San Bernadino from Monrovia Airport. After realizing that hamburgers were their most popular product‚ the brothers reinvented their restaurant using their Speedee Service System in 1948. It was a concept that created a production line of hamburgers that were made before being ordered. This concept pioneered the fast food industry and was in complete contrast
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McDonald’s launched it first restaurant in 1996. Unlike any other market‚ McDonald’s corp. has ventured in‚ India showed to be one of the toughest. As India’s population is very diverse and complex between different communities‚ religions‚ beliefs‚ and value systems‚ Mcdonald’s had to consider the cultural‚ economical and sociopolitical factors. Cultural Issue Because 80% of the population in India practice Hindu‚ which prohibits the consumption of beef‚ and of practicing muslims who do not consume pork
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North and South America‚ Europe‚ Australia and Asia‚ but are only thinly represented in the Middle East and Africa. The primary food products the company serves are hamburgers‚ cheeseburgers‚ chicken meals‚ french fries‚ coffee and milkshakes‚ but McDonald ’s is beginning to offer healthier products like wraps and salads. McDonald’s serves 64 million customers each day. McDonald’s sells its products in 117 countries and operates 32‚737 restaurants as of the end of 2010. Of the restaurants‚ 80% are
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competitors. Business Week Magazine even ranked McDonald’s as "one of the ten most recognized brands in the world"‚ a position that creates significant opportunities for the company. An important strength that continues to have the most dramatic impact on McDonalds is their top level management. Even though this is classified an as internal strength‚ McDonald’s has capitalized on a management style that helps to infuse a strong culture. A dynamic aspect of the McDonald’s culture is the willingness to innovate
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highway. Little do they know that over 33‚000 McDonalds are operating worldwide‚ one of which holds fifteen hundred people. Not only a “symbol of U.S. Culture” (Macionis 121)‚ but it has become a theory of sociology‚ unknown to most‚ conveniently named the “McDonaldization Theory”. The McDonaldization of Society is based off the findings of George Ritzer (1993)‚ in which he found four basic principles that our society correlates with the McDonalds Empire; those four principles are efficiency‚ predictability
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strive toward a sustainable future – for our company and the communities in which we operate‚” (McDonalds‚ 2012). McDonald’s suppliers must meet high quality standards to operate within the supply chain. These expectations will influence and impact procurement strategies‚ policies‚ and procedures – domestically and internationally. Expectations Expectations both domestic and globally are a focus for McDonalds‚ if the products are not there for the consumer they can lose faith in the company. The Procurement
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Global Expansion of McDonalds Many American corporations have attempted to expand their business globally. Some of these corporations have succeeded‚ but some have also failed because they have encountered different cultural barriers and differences that made it hard for these corporations to succeed. One of those multinational corporations that have encountered a few cultural barriers as they began global expansion was none other than McDonald’s. Though McDonald’s has encountered
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such as McDonald’s also faces the challenges of how to coordinate their pricing across different countries because of the fact that a company’s global pricing policy may make or break its overseas expansion efforts. In this case‚ McDonald’s is using Value-Pricing Strategy whereby its offer just the right combination of quality and good service at a fair price to their consumers. There are main drivers which affecting the McDonald’s global pricing such as the company goals‚ the company costs‚ the customer
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